The Bustle in a House By Emily Dickenson The Bustle in a House The Morning after Death Is solemnest of industries Enacted upon Earth – The Sweeping up the Heart And putting Love away We shall not want to use again Until Eternity. “The Bustle in a House”, is focusing on the death leading to insight found in Emily Dickinson’s poem. In another word the poem is about death of someone close and dear. The references to grief after the death of a loved one show that death is obviously a central theme. Also, it’s about house cleaning which is being compared to coming terms with reality of death, by sweeping up the broken heart, and keeping the love of that person in memory, “And putting Love away.” It is very obvious that the poem is about death from the first stanza indicates that the people move about the house to get their minds off the grief of the loss of a loved one. However, in line 6 the difference between cleaning and bringing oneself back together is that the person does not discard anything; they keep the memory with them.
This is a brilliant way of Dickinson to use those to themes in a metaphor because of the fact that over coming grief of a deceased love one is somewhat similar to cleaning: people pick themselves up after being down. When closely, last two lines of the poem suggest how Dickinson feels about immortality. It seems that she believes that once we die that it will not end. Also, she feels that people should keep memories with them because once they go to heaven, or eternity, they will use them. In conclusion the theme in this poem is concerned with death. In My opinion that all the commotion that goes in a house when someone dies makes you forget about everything around you.
The Essay on John Donne’s Love Poems
John Donne is one of many poets of his time who wrote love poetry. The thing that sets him apart from the others is that he manages to successfully subvert the traditional conventions to his own ends. Each of the secular poems “The Flea”, “The Sunne Rising” and “A Valediction Forbidding Mourning” shows Donne’s verbal dexterity, manipulation of the ...
And the pain and grief of someone’s lost love, is a pain that they don’t want to experience until they die.
